Reduction of Solids Into and Onto Liquid Substrates

该项目涉及初级金属的加工，如 铝合金 液态金属被用作熔融金属中的阴极。 盐电解 阴极部分被还原成熔融态 将金属（例如铝）注入Hall-Heroult电池的铝焊盘中，或者 进入三层铝精炼的浮铝激光器 cell. 在这项工作中，通常是固体的金属将被还原 在环境温度下， 以及在高温下的熔盐体系中。 电解 在汞和汞齐条件下从水溶液中还原金属 还将研究和扩展电极，以涵盖低熔点 金属混合物和镓在非水介质中。 金属 沉积在液体银和铝，使用建立的见- 在技术上，我们也将进行研究。 进行的研究包括 研究电结晶固体产物的性质， 原子级光滑衬底和条件的建立 在此条件下发生合金化或膜沉积。

This project deals with the processing of primary metals such as aluminum alloys. Liquid metals are employed as cathodes in molten salt electrolysis. The cathodic part is reduced into the molten metal, e.g. aluminum into the aluminum pad of Hall-Heroult cells or into the floating aluminum laser of a three layer aluminum refining cell. In this work metals that are normally solid will be reduced into and onto liquid metal substrates, both at ambient temperatures and in molten salt systems at elevated temperature. Electrolytic reduction of metals from aqueous solution at mercury and amalgam electrodes will also be studied and extended to cover low-melting metal mixtures and gallium in non aqueous media. The metal deposition at liquid silver and aluminum, using the established see- in technique, will also be studied. The research conducted includes a study of the nature of solid products electrocystallized on an atomically smooth substrate and the establishment of the conditions under which alloying or film deposition occurs.